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Scoring with your first touch, Serbian style

[VIDEO PICK]Vuk Bakic from Belgrade scores what may be the fastest goal ever, three seconds by my count, in a Serbian youth match between his
GSP Polet team and Dorcol.

Bakic stands over the initial kickoff for a bit before hearing the whistle, striking the ball with his left foot toward the opposing goal, lofting it perfectly
past the soon to be embarrassed Dorcol keeper, who's left flailing in the dirt as the ball sails over his head, and into his net -- all with the very first touch of the game.

FIFA's rules
do state that "a goal may be scored directly from kickoff" but the Dorcol coach protested, rightly it would seem, that Bakic's teammate was standing on its side of the field, making it a violation.
Legal or not, the goal stood, and GSP Polet won the match 4-1. ...